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C. H. DODGE.

GAGE FOR TINNERS SHEAR TALBS.

No. 318,888. Patented May 26, 1885.

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CHARLES HENRY DODGE, OF AUGUSTA, KANSAS, ASSIGNOR OF ONEHALF TO E. G. BOYLE di OO., OF SAME PLAGE.

GAGE FOR TlNNERS SHEAR=TABLES.

PECIFICATION forming pari'. of Letters Patent No. 318,883, dated Ii/Iay 26,1885. Application ilcd March 24, 1885. (No model.)

To @ZZ whom, it may camera: reason of the slot in the end of the gage-har g Be it known that I, CHARLES H. DODGE, a the har is prevented from binding between the citizen of the United States, residing at Auslides when being moved. r gusta, in the county of Butler and Sta-te of It will be seen that the slot and stud are in 5 Kansas, have invented a new and useful Irnline with each other in the gage-bar, and at a provement in Gages for Tinners Shear-Tadistance of, say, one-fourth of an inch from 61 bles, or" which the following is a specification, one edge, d", of the bar, and at a distance of reference being had to the accompanying one-half an inch from the opposite edge, d3, drawings. ,y thereof. lf the bar is secured to the slides io My invention relates to an improvement in with the edge d2 toward the shear-edge of the gages for tinners7 shear-tables; and it consists table, and it he desired to move the gage-bar 6 in the peculiar construction and combination one-fourth of an inch nearer to said edge, this of devices that will he more fully set forth can be accomplished by raising the gagebar hereinafter, and particularly pointed out in from the slides and reversing it with reference i5 the claims. to the shear-edge, so that the edge d? of the In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is gagebar will be presented thereto, and with- 7 a top plan view of a device embodying my inout the necessity of moving the slides, as will vention. Fig. 2 is a vertical sectional view be readily understood. r of the saine taken on the line x a; of Fig. l. A shear-table gage thus constructed is eX 2o Fig. 3 is a transverse sectional .view taken on ccedingly cheap andsimple, is easily operated, a the line y y of Fig. l. and is adapted for use in cutting tin-sheets 7 A represents a shear-table, such as is genwith absolute accuracy. erally used by tinners, and in the face of this Having thus described my invention, I table, near the ends thereof, are made trans claimverse grooves a, in which work the slides B. l. The combination of the table having the These slides are each provided with a series shear-edge and the grooves with the slides of openings, b, which are equidistant apart, that work in the grooves, the gage-bar adapted preferably half an inch from center to center, to be secured to the slides, and the set-screws as indicated in the drawings. Scales C are for clamping the slides'in the grooves, subinscribed on the table alongside the slides, stantially as described.

and the openings in the slides are marked to 2. The combination ofthe table having the correspond to the scales. shearedge and the grooves with the slides D represents a gage-bar, which is provided provided with the series of spaced openings near one end, on its under side, with a proand working in the grooves, the scales on the r jecting stud, d, that is of a size to exactly tit table alongside the grooves, the gage-bar the openings in the slides. Near the opposite i adapted to be secu red to the slides, and the setend ot' the gagebar is made a slot, d, which screws for clamping the slides in the grooves, is slightly wider at its upper side than it is at substantially as described. its lower side, as shown. 3. The combination of the table having the 4o E represents a stud, the shank e of which shear-edge, the grooves, and the scales alongexactly fits either of the series of openings in side the grooves with the slides having the the slides, and the head c of which is slightly spaced openings and working in the grooves, beveled on its sides so as to exactly fit in the the gage-bar having the stud and the slot, the ,e slot d of the gage-har. headed stud, and the set-screws for clamping Through the underside of thetable, beneath the slides in the grooves, substantially as dethe grooves, pass set-screws F, the points ot' scribed. l which can be caused to bear against the slides In testimony that l claim the foregoing as and secure them at any desired adj nstment. my own I have hereto aflixed my signature in By means of the scales and tdhe marked slides presence of two witnesses. "o it will be readil understoo that the @ane T D har can be secured at any desired disaice CHARLES HENRX DODGE from the shear-edge c of the table, and ex- Witnesses: actly parallel therewith, and thus enable the M. G. BOYLE, sheets of tin to be cut exactly square. By F. L. AYRns. 

